SG#1
Sports
Shay Given
born 1976Irish association football player
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Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Lifford, Co. Donegal
The 13 famous people born in Lifford, led by Shay Given
At the top of the list is the Irish association football player Shay Given, covered in 50 languages. Second place goes to the Irish badminton player Chloe Magee, third to Mickey Joe Harte. 5 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. The list runs from Charlie McEleny, born in 1873, to Sam Magee, born in 1991.
Born here
13
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Shay Given
50 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1873
Charlie McEleny
Youngest
1991
Sam Magee
Most common field
Sports
5 people
What stands out about Lifford’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Lifford’s famous people were born
The 1970s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Lifford
By how many languages cover them, Shay Given comes first (50), then Chloe Magee (13) and Mickey Joe Harte (10).
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MH#3
Music
Mickey Joe Harte
born 1973Irish singer-songwriter
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Known for
What Lifford is known for
Lifford has 1.4× the usual share of leaders.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Lifford
10 more, 3 of them athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Ballybofey-Stranorlar’s, with 9.
Questions about famous people from Lifford
Who is the most famous person from Lifford?
Shay Given (Irish association football player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 50 languages. Next come Chloe Magee and Mickey Joe Harte.
How many famous people were born in Lifford?
13 people born in Lifford have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 14 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Lifford known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 5 of the 13. That is 38% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Lifford?
Charlie McEleny, born in 1873. The youngest on the list was born in 1991.
Who counts as from Lifford?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Lifford’s urban area (the CSO’s 2022 urban area), a hospital or district within it included, whose English Wikipedia article agrees. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes aren’t listed.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata birthplace may be a county or just “Ireland”, a townland or village we don’t list, another town, or missing, or their article may give no birthplace. We only list people both sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations, how many Wikipedia and sister-site articles cover each person) and English Wikipedia (each person’s article confirms the birthplace; linked, not quoted). A birthplace is placed in a town by its own Wikidata item, its Logainm place name, or a point inside its CSO 2022 outline; a birth recorded only as one of the five cities stays on the city’s page. Ranked by the number of articles. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across Irish towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
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- Frances Browne: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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